November 2015 Babies

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Home Doppler-how early?

katehurst8412 wrote:

I found our baby's heartbeat at home at 7w1d, which is way early! Now I haven't been able to find it again. Any one else use home doppler and at what week did you first find your baby's heartbeat? Thanks!

I found mine this Saturday at 9w4d and tried again today and couldn't. I think it's just too early. I'm hoping that's why anyway.

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bh827

I found ours at 9+5 and couldn't find it the next day. I did find it the day after and this morning. I find it best if I do it right when I wake up and don't have food in my stomach, but a full bladder.

My asked my doctor to try today at 8w6d and he said they don't even try in the office until 10 weeks because the baby is below the pelvis bone. He tried with me as long as I agreed not to panic if we didn't hear anything, lol. It was too early to hear a clear heartbeat but we heard some flutters over a certain spot on my pelvis. He said he's 99.9% sure that was the heartbeat but it's just too early. I decided against buying a home Doppler because I think I would freak myself out if I could find it one day but not the next. I applaud you mamas who aren't hypochondriacs like me! Good luck! :)

I found the heartbeat tonight!! 7 weeks 4 days! I was 9 with my DD and 10 with my DS when I found theirs! I was so surprised to find it now! I have an ultrasound Wednesday! Finding the heartbeat eased my mind!

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misstiff13

I got a home Doppler machine on Friday but only found the heartbeat today (9 weeks, 6 days) after trying every day since I got it. It takes a lot of patience but I found a couple YouTube videos that are helpful. There's also some good videos with other sounds you might hear that aren't the baby's heartbeat but many people confuse for the heartbeat. It definitely gave me some piece of mind to hear the heartbeat.

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Caseynh82

9w2d and I got the app on my phone (don't worry only use in airplane mode) and I works good

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katehurst8412

Thanks ladies!! :)

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katehurst8412

So here's an update ladies: found babies heartbeat this morning at exactly 8 weeks!! Last week the heartbeat was to faint for the doppler to pick up bpm but today the highest was 153bpm!! So excited!! Now just to find it again when hubby gets home... :)

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imbecca143

The reason you can't find it every day is, it's a lot harder to find it when your stomach is full especially early in the pregnancy, try to have a full bladder cuz that will help push the baby up and when you get up and move around it moves the baby so sometimes he is just in a different spot

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muhler415

I found the HB on Sunday so 9w6d. It is very low, below the pubic bone. If you go slow it's easier to pick up.

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emmers86

My doc office won't even do it until 11 weeks bc it's hard to find and there's a sound that sounds just like the heartbeat but it's not lol she waved over it and I was like there it is! She said "nope!" Lol so I leave it to the professionals lol

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